Pneumatic dress-form



(No Model.)

S. E. HERVEY.

PNYBUMATIG DRESS FORM, No. 250,439. Patented Dee. 6,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SARAH E. HERVEY, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PNEUMATIC DRESS-FORM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,439, dated December 6, 1881.

Application led August 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SARAH ELIzA HERVEY, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Pneumatic Dress-Form, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in dress-forms, in which are secured certain advantages over other forms heretofore in use, substantially as follows: a more exact imitation of the human form, and also ot the individual form or figure, so that dresses may be tted to them instead of to the person; lightness and ease of handling, and convenience in folding up in a small compass when not in use. I attain these objects by constructing the form of rubber cloth, air-tight, and inflating it with air forced into it by a bellows attached to the bottom, as shown in the drawing.

The drawing represents the form when in lated and ready tor use.

The air-tight rubber body A is firmly attached to a base, C, made of wood. The bellows B, for inating the same, is attached to the under side of the wooden base C, as shown in the drawing. At E, in the arm-size, is inserted a small metallic tube, with astop-cock, by which the air in the form may be let out when it is to be folded up and put away. In the center of the bottom of the rubberform (not shown in the drawing) is inserted a metallic tube, which has an air-tight metallic valve at the top, and is furnished with ascrew-thread at the bottom, by which it is screwed into and through the wooden base ot' the form, so as to open into theinterior ofthe bellows B. The bellowsB is made with a common clapper-valvein its lower and movable part, P, and maybe worked bythe foot by metallic springs s. Closing the bellows when it is filled with air forces the inclosed air up through the connecting-tube into the form, where it is retained by the valve.`

The claim which I make for my invention 1s The combination, with a dress-form consist ing of an inflated rubber figure, A, attached to a base, C, of a bellows, B, attached to the under side of the base, for inliating the form, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

SARAH ELIZA HERVEY. Witnesses:

WILLIAM A. HEEVEY, CHARLES S. HEEyEY. 

